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Exodus 30:13

This they shall give, everyone that passeth among them that are numbered, everyone that is included in the census, half a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary; (a shekel is twenty gerahs;) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. Every male Israelite was to be enrolled in the army of Jehovah after he had reached the age of twenty years and be obliged to pay this assessment of half a shekel standard weight, that is, about 32 cents annually. This tax was used for the maintenance of the sacrificial service, since the expenses connected with the Jewish form of worship must have been quite large. The payment of this fee distinguished the people of the Lord from the heathen that knew nothing of Him.

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See also Exodus 30:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 30:13. _HALF A SHEKEL_] Each of the Israelites was ordered to give as a ransom for his soul (i.e., for his life) half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. From this we may...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE RANSOM OF SOULS. - Exodus 38:25. On comparing these words with those of Numbers 1:1, we may perhaps infer that the first passage relates to a mere counting of the adult Israelites at the time when...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 30 THE ALTAR OF INCENSE AND THE WORSHIPPERS _ 1. The altar (Exodus 30:1)_ 2. The atonement money (Exodus 30:11) 3. The brazen laver and the unction of the Spirit (Exodus 30:22) 4. The ince...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 30-31. P S. PRIESTLY SUPPLEMENTS. These two Chapter s form an appendix to Exodus 25-29. The golden incense altar finds no place in Exodus 25 or Exodus 26:33 or Leviticus 16 (where the annual ri...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHEKEL OF THE SANCTUARY. See App-51. Compare Matthew 17:24. GERAH,. measure of weight. See App-51. OFFERING. Hebrew. _terurnah._ See App-43....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _passeth over_, &c. viz. before the officer who took the census, _to those that are numbered_, and who stand on the other side. Cf. to -pass over" (of sheep being numbered) Leviticus 27:32; Jeremiah 3...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HALF A SHEKEL— i.e. according to some commentators, nearly _fourteen-pence._ This tax, every man was bound to pay, from twenty years and upwards, Exodus 30:14. And neither more nor less was to be paid...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 30 And thou shalt make an altar to bum incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it. (2) A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursqu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ When thou takest ... Moses did so twice, and doubtless observed the law here prescribed. The tax was not levied from women, minors, old men (Numbers 1:42; Num...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. THE RANSOM MONEY. THE LAVER. THE ANOINTING OIL. THE INCENSE 1-10. The Altar of Incense. The use of incense in worship was probably due to the worshipper's desire to honour God by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HALF A SHEKEL] A silver shekel was equal to fully half-a-crown. The SHEKEL OF THE SANCTUARY seems to have been a standard weight, and was probably preserved by the priests in the sanctuary....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 30 THE *ALTAR WHERE THE PRIESTS BURNT POWDER THAT HAS A SWEET SMELL...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HALF A SHEKEL. — When shekels came to be coined, they were round pieces of silver, about the circumference of a shilling, but considerably thicker, and worth about 2s. 7 d. Of our money. Their average...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    זֶ֣ה ׀ יִתְּנ֗וּ כָּל ־הָ עֹבֵר֙ עַל ־הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE CENSUS. Exodus 30:11. Moses by Divine command was soon to number Israel, and thus to lay the foundation for its organisation upon the march. A census was not, therefore, supposed to be presumptu...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ATONEMENT MONEY AND THE LAVER Exodus 30:11 The atonement money was paid by all alike, to remind them that they were a redeemed race, and that so far as their value was concerned, neither rank, no...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We may come to the description of the altar of incense. It is significant that in the earlier description of the Holy Place, with its furnishing, this altar was not named. It was specifically the alta...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the (h) shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Half a sicle. A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a stater) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which was the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver; that i...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Half a shekel was in point of value about 14 pence of our money....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 30 AND 31. Having thus established the priesthood, and the relationship of the people with God who dwelt in the midst of them, the intercession of Christ in g...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THIS THEY SHALL GIVE, EVERYONE THAT PASSETH AMONG THEM THAT ARE NUMBERED,.... And their number, according to Jarchi, was known by what was paid; for he says the sum was taken not by heads, but everyon...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Altar of incense. 11 The ransome of soules. 17 The brasen lauer. 22 The holy anoynting oyle. 34 The composition of the perfume. 1 AND thou shalt make an Altar to burne incense vpon: of Shit...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    H. THE VISION OR THE IDEAL OF THE TABERNACLE. THE ORDERING OF THE ARK AND OF THE HOUSE OF THE COVENANT; OF THE LIVING PRESENCE OF THE LAW AND OF THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THE LAW-GIVER Exodus 25-31 I. C...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    5. _The Altar of Incense_. Exodus 30:1-10 The reason why the directions concerning the altar of incense are given so late is seen in the design of it, which puts it among the things directly connected...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GOLDEN ALTAR OF INCENSE (vs.1-10) Before this chapter the Lord has given instructions concerning the tabernacle, its court and all the furniture both outside and inside, except the altar of incen...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-16 The tribute was half a shekel, about fifteen pence of our money. The rich were not to give more, nor the poor less; the souls of the rich and poor are alike precious, and God is no respecter of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE SHEKEL OF THE SANCTUARY hath been commonly conceived to be double to the common shekel, yet divers late learned men seem more truly to judge that it was no more than the common shekel, consisting...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The priesthood being instituted, as in the two preceding Chapter s, we are here introduced to the position of true priestly worship and communion. The order is marked and instructive; and, moreover, p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 30:13 among H5674 (H8802) H5921 numbered H6485 (H8803) give H5414 (H8799) half H4276 shekel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    REGULATION IN RESPECT OF THE NUMBERING OF THE SERVANTS OF YAHWEH (EXODUS 30:11). That this regulation was placed between the consecration of the altar of incense and the bronze laver brings out that t...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    THIS THEY SHALL GIVE Compare (Exodus 38:25). Silver thus becomes a type of redemption. (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 26:19). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The altar of incense and the brazen laver. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: (See Psalms 141:2). The prayer of a contrite believer ascends as a fragrant cloud to God. (Proverbs 15...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 30:6. _Before the veil._ This altar, formed like the ark, of the incorruptible wood covered over with pure gold, represented the Son of God in human nature; and the incense typified his interce...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 30:11 Every person counted in a census is to give HALF A SHEKEL for the service of the tabernacle. It is an OFFERING TO THE LORD, either as a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 30:11_ EQUALITY BEFORE GOD We are reminded here— I. THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUALLY RECOGNISED BY THE EYE OF GOD. Moses was to take “the sum of the children of Is...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE RANSOM OF SOULS. The various commands given with respect to the tabernacle and its furniture would necessarily involve a very considerable outlay; and it was important that Moses should...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it. It's to be eighteen by eighteen, and forty-five inches high (Exodus 30:1). This is a little altar that was set in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    a shekel is Leviticus 27:25 Numbers 3:47 Ezekiel 45:12 an half shekel Exodus 38:26...

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